Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Functional and morphological changes of endothelium are risk factors for mortality attributed to atherosclerosis. Studies investigating early atherosclerotic alterations and the effect of the treatment of acromegaly on these alterations gave conflicting results.Objective: Surrogate markers of early atheosclerotic changes, i.e. brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and carotid artery intima-media-thickness (IMT) in active and inactive a...

The aim of this study is to evaluate endothelial function in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (pHT) during the preoperative hypercalcemic and postoperative normocalcemic periods and to determine whether intron 4a/b polymorphism of eNOS gene influences endothelial function. Forty-one patients with pHT (28 women, 12 men; age: 48.4±11.6 years, serum calcium: 11.4±1.0 mg/dl, parathyroid hormone: 373.3±394.5 pg/ml) who fulfilled the criteria for parathyroid ...